S1.E3 ∙ Eyes and Ears

Twenty-two children tell eleven stories about the extraordinary life of simplex-priest and Capuchin Friar, Solanus Casey.

We are still here. This is our story, the story of the bison, who inhabit the Northern Hemisphere. We are walking sacred sites because we take care of our biggest sacred site: The Earth.

An urban nature lover, John Dunstan documents his early morning walks with Tommy, his English bulldog. Set amidst reclaimed natural habitat skirting Jersey City and Bayonne, against the dramatic backdrops of the New York skyline and the Statue of Liberty, The film creates a visual poem with a few surprises.

Lost Down Memory Lane is the first author's documentary about living with Alzheimer's, seen exclusively through the eyes of people who suffer from it. Eight of them live together under constant supervision and care. They are all in the first phase of the disease: bouts of lucidity, forgetfulness and falling into oblivion constantly alternate. The patients live their lives, as long as they're capable. The film is a 'tranche de vie': a portrait of the daily coming and going of people in that particular and ditto state. It is also the portrait of a brutal disease that irreversible expropriates the memory from the characters. Eventually the characters will have changed. Because of their illness, they may have been disappeared completely, physically or mentally.

The Absence of Mr. and Mrs. B Under social pressure, an infertile Iranian couple undergoes multiple in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments that drain both their finances and their marital bond. Both Mr. and Mrs. B take turns threatening divorce and then reconciling in a truly confusing dance of passion and punishment.

Together, two college-age friends reflect on their youth as they prepare to turn 20 and face adulthood.